Barry Erskine's site at PSNC is now for reference purposes only and will not be updated. Records of our previous reunions and numerous photos will remain there. We have to thank for Barry for all the work he's undertaken over the years, from organising the reunions and maintaining his site. I will start to build up a photo library, so if you photos of ships or personnel, I'll endeabvour to add them

Can you please update me if you change your email address as quite often I get bouncers or server failure to deliver notices. If anyone wants to contact a former colleague, please let me know & I'll do my best to track them down

2025 Reunion - 26th & 27th March 2025 at The Steam Packet, Northern Perimeter Road, Bootle L30 7PT. Tel 0151 531 1497

FLEET HISTORY

• Line drawings of the Fleet from 1931 onwards but a few earlier ones too
• mv "Melpol" Rescue - (formerly "Somers Isle") - Report & Photos
• Poderoso - Recent photos and information from Kevin Hyland
• This is a link to the "Red Duster" Site which has a history of the company with ship photos.

PERSONNEL

• Who's Who - Deck, Engineering, Electrical, Radio Officers and Cadets, Pursers, Chief and 2nd Stewards
• WHERE are they now? - Lost contact with former PSNC officers?
• OBITUARIES

• MIXED
• Mike Lee's beautifully decorated PSNC Lifebuoy first displayed at the 2015 Reunion
• Capt David Houghton's 75th Birthday Party
• Canada Dock & The Dominion
• Eric James Sr. and Jr. - Electricians on Loretto, Laguna and Santander
• Potosi Home Trade c1960 - Engineers and Office Staff
• Reina del Mar Officers '58-'59 - from Brian Stone
• Reina del Pacifico Officers- in Cabin Class Bar - from Chris Ellis
• Reina del Pacifico Pursers- dining al fresco - from Chris Ellis
• Salinas Officers 1948 - 6 young men - from J Alan Gibson
• Santander Officers - Christmas 1961 - from Steve Roscoe
• Santander, Walsingham, Cotopaxi and Salinas personnel - 1956 & 1958 - from Ken Bradshaw
• Sarmiento Officers 1950 - from J Alan Gibson
• Salaverry Officers - 1961? - date uncertain
• Steve Roscoe's photos on Wm Wheelwright
• Tickell, Wheeler, Nuttall, Erskine - Aug 97

• DECK
  Cotopaxi Cadets 1958
  Reina del Mar Navigating Officers - December 1962
  Santander Deck Cadets 1964
  TJD "Barry" Erskine,
  

• ENGINEERS
  Russell Judge's Photos - Bill Waring (electrician) and Russell Judge  
  George Hawkins - and un-named colleagues from 1950' & 1960's
  Salamanca Officers 1962
  Ian and Sheila Currie
  Reina Del Mar Engineering Personnel - circa 1959
  Reina Del Mar Engineering Personnel - 1963
  Ron Berry - circa 1960
  Santander Engineering Officers Christmas 1967
  

• PURSERS
  Valerie Steel, Brian Spears and Liz Rybert  
  McGarry, John
  Ross, Mike
  Slater, Alison
  Liz Rybert, Peter McSally & Alison Slater

• SHIPS
  
• PSNC ships

HUMOUR & MEMORIES

• Keith Adams fascinating career from early 1953 in PSNC - he swallowed the anchor aged 78! (Sept 2019)
• Oscar "Ossie" Baker's Memories as a Cadet in WW11 - At 91 years young he has a great memory! (Oct 2015)
• Ken Owen's Memories as a Cadet - illustrated.
• Did they call you Jonah? - a brief account of Tony Weate's experiences as a cadet.
• A Cadet's sense of humour - from Ian Macrae.
• Lessons to be learned - a humorous story'
• Steve Roscoe's Memoirs - from his 1st trip onwards - a great story.  Are you mentioned?

MISCELLANEOUS

• Sketch of Cadets on Orbita - fom Bernie Guymer (1 July 2019)
• Salinas & Suez Crisis - from Malcolm Ratcliffe (Jun 2019) 
• Derek Holland's Photo - Derek and lifeboat crew from Cienfuegos in Nicaragua (Jun 2019)  
• Were you a Warsash Cadet? - Martin Greenwood would like to hear from you (Jan 2013)
• Captain Stowe D.S.C. - Wartime Master of Reina Del Pacifico (Jan 2013)
• Capt S.E. "Jock" Ayland's photos and memorabilia - from Alison Hayes (Jan 2013)
• Arthur Stringfellow's Photos  incl. Eleuthera personnel and Cricket team, Salaverry fishmeal fire and Island Boats laid up in Fowey c.1970.
• House Flag Badges are now available!
• Professional research services - research service records of former Merchant Navy personnel
• Peter Cleife remembers "Bosun John Millis"
• "Ploughing the South Sea" - a fascinating new book by former PSNC Purser John McGarry,
• La Paz - Information required for novel
• Oropesa Casualty List - sunk by a U-Boat 16 Jan 1941
• Reina del Pacifico - Reports on the disastrous engine explosion
• Old PSNC posters - Link to host site
• Reina del Pacifico and Reina del Mar - interesting illustrated articles by Liverpool Nautical Research Society
• Simplon Postcards - hundreds of ships including PSNC
• Songs by Richard Robinson . . . access the songs he performed at the 2010 reunion, including "You Miss The Rolling Sea"
• Life and Death of PSNC Captain James Barr - 1830 to 1890
  

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P.S.N.C. Ships (photographs)

P.S.N.C. Former Sea-Going Personnel

• Captains . . . . . Chief Officers . . . . . 2nd Mates . . . . 3rd Mates . . . . . 4th Mates . . . . Deck Cadets
• Chief Engineers . . . . . 2nd Eng . . . . . 3rd Eng . . . . . 4th Eng . . . . . Junior Eng . . . . . Engineer Cadets
  
• Electrical Engineers . . . . . Plumbers
• Pursers
• Chief Stewards . . . . . 2nd Stewards
• Radio Officers
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